Martin Klang wrote:
> let me take a wild guess here and say that the 11 pounder might just be a
> PC running Xalan (or some other opensource xslt-engine) on linux with a
> bit of bespoke software and four NICs, dressed up nicely in a 1u rack and
> painted green. hardly 'specialised hardware', if that would be the case,
> and i can't see any indication from the datasheet that it isn't.
In fact, if someone commissioned me to build a standalone box that
processed XML real efficiently, that's how I'd build it. Among other
things, that outsources the processing-speed R&D to Intel and AMD. -Tim
